The end of the Spot's Reign

[mrosa]

Once upon a time The Spot was this supervillain who defeated Spider-Man (well, for one issue anyway), and instead of quitting while he was ahead he tried to defeat him again:

We start with The Spot discovering new things about his powers:


I'm not sure he's even been seen as a human again since this. Oh, and for a geeky-looking scientist he's pretty well built!

Anyway, he decides to fight the web-crawler one more time to prove himself:



And I'm a sucker for his out of nowhere attacks:





But things don't work out very well:



This was a neat three-parter; unfortunately after this The Spot became a running joke, why I don't know since his powers and design always struck me as pretty good.

(Taken from Spectacular Spider-Man #100)

Comments

[akodo_rokku]

Probably because Spidey didn't just beat him here, he broke his spirit and embarrassed him.

[silicondream]

It's not really a terrible humiliation, though; the guy wasn't exactly dedicated to supervillainy in the first place. Winning 1/2 rounds against Spider-Man is pretty impressive for an untrained civilian, and it's no shame that the Spot gave up after deciding it wasn't very fun to risk his life.

What's weird is that he went on to actually seek revenge against Spider-Man and stuff. Given his personality here, I'd expect him to be more pragmatic than that--either go legit, or use his powers for lower-profile and less violent crimes.

[drexer]

Gotta love how he commits himself to another confrontation to make sure the first "wasn't just a fluke". Applying the scientific method to villain-on-hero fights is certainly a nice concept.

[skemono]

"Alright, so I was beaten by Spider-Man this time. Now to try another eight times to build up a sufficient n value... oh, and I have to check the results of my control groups, the non-powered people I paid to attack him!"

[filthysize]

I love how "it would take too long" just to stretch a spot, but apparently there's enough time for a lengthy explanation of the workaround.

[philippos42]

Exposit at every opportunity!